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SPACE RACE OVERVIEW
(USSR)

(America)

**VS**
The Space Race was a competition between the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] and the United States to achieve the lastest in space technology. The Space Race last from the 1950s - the early 1975. The Space heated up during the 1957 when the USSR launched the first satellite in space, Sputnik 1. The Americans were worried beacause if the Soviet could lauch a satellite in space they could launch a ICBM [Intercontinental ballistic missile] at America and other NATO nations. One years later America caught up to the Soviet Union and lauched the first American Sattelite in space Explorer 1. After the success of Explorer 1 NASA budget was increased by 500%.The Soviet Union was the first country to launch the first man in space, Yuri.The Space Race was again heat up when JFK told the world that America will be the first country to reach the moon. After many years the Soviet and Americans were building technolgy that would reach the moon.On July 1969 the Americans were the first country to reach the moon, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. After the Moon landing the Space Race cooled down and eventually end in 1975. [] - Space race

USSR
The Soviet Space program was called the Soviet Space Agency. The Soviet's space agency had lots of accomplishments. The first accomplishments was on October 4,1957 the USSR became the first country to launch the first satellite in space, Sputnik 1. The Sputnik 1 main role was to gather information about the upper atmosphere and space. The satellite was launched into space by A R7 rocket. Sputnik 1 weighed 187 pounds and the R7 weighed 200 tons. Sputnik orbited Earth every 96mins.Sputnik was 13.7inches wide and 60inches long. Sputnik took the Soviet Union 7 years to make and costed the nation 25billion dollars to make. The Sputnik mission duration was 3 months and in those 3 months the satellite orbited the earth 1,440 times. After its third mission the satellite was replaced by Sputnik 2. On November 3,1951 the soviets conducted a experiment to see if it was possible for mammals to go into space and life. So the Soviets launched Sputnik 2 and in the shuttle was a 3 year old dog named Laika. After a week all tests went perfect and it was possible for mammals to survive in space.The experiment was part of a bigger plan,that bigger plan was to send the first human in space. On April 12,1961 the USSR launched Yuri Gargarin in space and orbited the earth once in Vostok 1. The mission lasted a week. After the space shuttle landed in the Soviet Union Yuri was given the highest military award; The Hero of the Soviet Union. Yuri died in a plane crash in 1968.

[] - Sputnik 1 launch [] - Yuri Gagarin

**UNITED STATES**
The United states was know as NACA but on July 20,1951 it was replaced by NASA. Like the Soviets the Americans had lots of success in the Space Race. The first success the American had was launching the first American satellite in space, Explorer 1. The satellite was made under a year because the Soviet had launched Sputnik 1 and the American didn't want to lag behind the Soviets. The satellite was launched on Jan. 31, 1958. Its mission was the same as Sputnik 1 which was to gather information about the Earth and Solar system.The mission lasted 3 months, in those 3 months the satellite found the radiation belt. Also Explorer 1 orbited Earth every 114.6mins which was slower than Sputnik 1. Another success happened on May 5, 1961 when Allen Shepard became the first human to walk into space. The suit that Allen wore was worth 1billion at the time. The biggest success happened on July 20,1969 when Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr were the first people to walk on the moon. 8 year early JFK told the American public that America will send men to the moon and be more the Soviet Union. [] - space landing

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